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Posted on the 02 March 2014 by Georgewhite @georgew28573812
spotting out of place British actors usually seen in telly in American (usually American made, rather than the uk-made likes of Batman where Rodney Trotter's dad in law appears from Only Fools or Superman with Richard Griffiths or Star Wars.
Roshan Seth and Simon Callow in Street Fighter
 Ronald Fraser, Percy Herbert and Harry Andrews in Too Late the Hero
PH Moriarty in Jaws 3 (Costar Simon MacCorkindale by then was US-based but Moriarty did everything from the Bill and the Professionals to PIFs)
TP McKenna in Red Scorpion
Richard Caldicot and Frank Singuineau in Firepower (1979)
Cathleen Nesbitt in Family Plot and French Connection II
Christopher Fulford in D-Tox
Dudley Sutton, Frank Middlemass, Colin Jeavons and Don Henderson in The Island
Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne and Warren Clarke in Firefox
Michael Elphick and Rikki Fulton in Gorky Park
Jack Watson in The Devils Brigade
Jack Watson and Percy Herbert in Tobruk
Clinton Greyn in Raid On Rommel
Nathaniel Parker in The Bodyguard
David Suchet in Iron Eagle
Dave King and Robert Stephens in cheesy US Sam Katzman b film Pirates of Tortuga
Bernard Archard in 1985 King solomons Mines
MichaelPraed and JohnStanding in Nightflyers
Frank Finlay and Nadim Sawalha and Glynn "Dave off Minder" Edwards in Shaft in Africa
Bryan Marshall in the Dolph Lundgren Punisher
Jack May in The Man Who Would Be King
Brian Tilsley in Robocop 2
Bob Peck in Jurassic Park
Derek Murcott (The Time Monster) in Kentucky Fried Movie's A Fistful of Yen
John Alderson in The Klansman
Guy Siner in Megiddo- The Omega CODE 2.
Marcus Gilbert in Army of Darkness
AubreyMorris in Bordello of Blood
Derrick O'Connor and Joss Ackland in Lethal Weapon 2
Effectively, Pete Postlethwaite's appearances in The Usual Suspects and Jurassic Park - The Lost World were initially this.
Craig Fairbrass in Cliffhanger
Nigel Hawthorne in Sylvester Stallone's Demolition Man.
Alexei Sayle in Gorky Park.
John Cleese in Silverado.
Peter Cook in Supergirl.
David Schneider in Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible
Ronald Leigh-Hunt in Le Mans
John "Frank Pickle" Bluthal in the Fifth Element and Dark City
Richard Harris in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven.
Alan Badel and Patrick Magee in Telefon
The Omen was UK-made, but Leo McKern, IanHendry and Elizabeth Shepherd in the American Damien Omen II was a shock.
David Warner, Donald Pleasence and Denholm Elliott in Various
Sir Burt Kwouk in Kiss of the Dragon
Stuart WIlson in No Escape/Lethal Weapon 3
Ian McNeice in Day of the Dead (remake)
Dennis Waterman in Man In The Wilderness
John Bennett, Julie T Wallace and Lenny McLean in The Fifth Element
Art Malik in True Lies
Michael 'Bullet Baxter' Cronin and Kevin McNally in The Raven
Tim Seely, Hugh Griffith, Gordon Jackson, Noel Purcell (ok, he's Irish, but born when Ireland was part of UK) and Duncan Lamont in Mutiny on the Bounty
Sky Riders - HarryAndrews and Kenneth Griffith
Ladyhawke - Leo Mckern, Ken Hutchinson
Michael Byrne in various, inc. Apt Pupil
John Castle in Robocop 3
Steven Berkoff in Rambo: First Blood, Part II, Octopussy (US owned) and Beverly Hills Cop.
Milton Johns in The X-Files
Pamela Salem in Gods and Monsters
Twilight's Last Gleaming, German-made has loads of Brit-based US/Canadians (Ed Bishop, William Hootkins, Lionel Murton etc)
James Booth (and Chris Lee) in Airport '77
JamesBooth and Simon McCorkindale in Cabo Blanco
Tom Ellis and Roger Griffiths in Buffalo Soldiers
Mark Strong and James Cosmo in To End all Wars
Ewen Bremner, Peter Firth, Daniel Mays and Nicholas Farrell in Pearl Harbour
Gary Stretch in Dead Dogs Lie + loads more
Peter Howitt in Antitrust (He directed it though)
Jason Isaacs, Ewen Bremner and Matthew Marsden in Black Hawk Down
Vinnie Jones in Swordfish + loads more
Bill Treacher and David Schofield in The Musketeer
Alfred Molina in Buffalo Soldiers + loads more
All the main cast of Trainspotting in lots of US films
John Abineri in Godfather 3
Sarah Douglas in Return of the Living Dead III
Uncle Tom Baker and all in Dungeons and Dragons
Robin Askwith in U-571
Ian Dury in Judge Dredd
Christopher Neame in various
Kenny Ireland, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Quarshie, Colin Blakely, Robert Urquhart in the Dogs of War
 Freddie Jones and Patrick Stewart and Sian Phillips and Sting and Francesca Annis in Dune
Patrick Malahide, Mary Peach, Angus Wright, Rupert Vansitart, David Bailie*, Ken Bones, Roger Booth and George Murcell in Cutthroat Island.
* who would also feature in the Pirates of the Carribean films.
Roy Evans in the mostly US-made Raise the Titanic
Michael Sheard in various, inc.Green Ice

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